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the colgate maroon founded 1868 oldest college weekly in america vol cxvii no 23 colgate university hamilton ny tuesday may 7 19851 semester closes on divestment issue by dale bryk 87 final demonstration is scheduled for friday afternoon at chapel a final rally organized by col gate students calling for the divest ment in companies doing business in south africa is being scheduled for this friday at the rally par ticipants will release balloons sym bolizing the end of the two week longsit-inandtoshowtheunityand strength of the protestors move ment before colgate's finance committee meeting this meeting will be held at an as yet unannounc ed date also on friday jennifer davis exeuctive director of the american committee on africa is returning to speak to the colgate community following these events a large reception is planned for all those in volved in the movement a symposium is planned for wednesday afternoon at which both the majority and minority reports to the finance committee will be presented by the financial advisory committee the organization for colgate divest ment hopes to present its formal policy as well at this time an open discussion of all three proposals will follow representatives from thestudent and faculty groups supporting divestment will meet on thursday with those board members who are able to arrive a day early dean moynihan has indicated that as many as eighteen of the twenty four trustees will attend this meeting including the chairman of the board dartmouth divests of kimberly-clark but gate may keep shares dartmouth college will divest itself of two u.s companies doing business in south africa that have not conformed to the college's policy on investor responsibility according to dartmouth college president davidt mclaughlin the college will sell its holdings in the kimberly-clark corporation and the republic bank of dallas colgate presently own 1600 shares in the kimberly-clark cor poration according to raymond krehell vice president in charge of business and finance at colgate the present policies of the colgate corporate investment advisory committee state that the university will not divest instead if after direct cor respondence with the company the committee discovers that the sullivan principles are not being upheld it will call for a minority resolution at the annual stock holders mmeeting to persuade the corporation to cahange its opera tions and policies in south africa in responce to dartmouth's divest ment actions mr krehell said he was not familiar with the college's investment policy and therefor could not comment the kimberly-clark corpora tion owns a 39 percent interest in th carlton paper corporation a south african business which fail ed to demonstrate that it was in compliance with the sullivan prin ciples a set of personnnel guidelines for american companies doing business in south africa benefit concert for cancer fund set for wednesday by adrians gardela 86 a benefit concert will be held on wednesday may 8 at 8:00 p.m in the colgate chapel to raise money for the susan d lloyd scholarship fund susan lloyd was a 1980 high school graduate from westport connecticut who succumbed to cnacer just prior to her first semester at colgate the fund pro vides college scholarships in recognition of the achievements of young people battling cancer we lloyds are tough was the title of the essay susan wrote for ad mission to colgate she wrote of the many hills surrounding colgate and her confidence that she could climb them all after having a leg amputated because of the cancer she was able to go back to most of her former activities including cheerleading during her courageous fight with cancer susan showed no signs of self pity deter mined to lead a normal life jeff keith a past recipient of the scholarship lost a leg to cancer as a child and went on to become an avid skier lacrosse player and triathlete in february he completed an eight month 3,300 mile run across the united states i wanted to show that people like me are physically challenged not physically han dicapped said keith it is hoped that many will become involved with this worthy cause by supporting the may 8 concert hamilton town merchants and high school students have joined the ef fort by helping with donations ticket sales and posters the concert will first feature guitar and vocals by bob austrian jon schwartz and vocals by dave culton following that will be a performance by the colgate dance theater and guitar and vocals by suzanne sherman and tracy west much of the music to be played by the guitar duets will be by such songwriters as dan fogelberg and james taylor those who have heard these performers on campus are well aware of the high quality of entertainment this evening will of fer acting as emcee will be dean joseph caprio an international bake sale will follow the concert in judd chapel with donations coming from the in ternational organizations on cam pus tickets for the may bth concert are available for 3 from members of the scholarship fund commit tee and at the door on the night of the concert for more information contact suzanne sherman at 824-3334 langdon names winners of cobb fellowships by christine knapp 88 president langdon had a lun cheon at the colgate inn yesterday afternoon to honor this year's reci pients of the george cobb fellowship and the president's award the selection committee appointed by the student affairs board chose to honor twenty students with a cobb fellowship the award recognizes outstanding leadership qualities and the effec tive influence therein on the col gate community between ten and twenty students are annually acknowledged by this award established by a fund donated by the late george w cobb of the class of 1894 this year's recipients are from the class of 1986 victoria anderson tracy clark christine cuomo janine daniels betsy dinger louis goldberg anderew hill james plum steven siegel darryl silva and charles sprock from the class of 1987 colin bur rell john gershman jonathan halkyard tracy hucks mario marsicano domenick scudera and lynne woehrle from the classof 1988 heather fitzpatrick and susan phillips the president's award recognizing students who have made outstanding contributions to the minority community at colgate university was awarded to five seniors this award provides of ficial and public recognition of the dedicated service of selected seniors throughout their undergraduate years at colgate this year's reci pients are irving chung kirk mcdaniel jennifer randolph linda settles and gar field smith in addition to public recognition of their sevices at colgate winners of both awards receive a monetary award a jazz band played in the colgate quad friday afternoon to about two hundred students who enjoyed lots of free ice cream and pepsi cola photo matt gilson zeta delta pi sorority is approved here 4th colgate sorority by heather fitzpatrick 88 the student affairs board ap proved the one year probationary status for zeta delta pi a new sorority after this period the s.a.b will once again review the group and at that time if they are approved they will become an of ficial sorority on campus lisa salvatore zeta delta pi's president and vice president laurie martin briefly outlined the reasons for which they formed zeta delta pi and its goals for the future zeta delta pi has already begun to fulfill its goal of active ser vice to the hamilton and colgate communities in additional to work with the elderly at the hospital it has been in contact with the volunteer service bureau and has made a committment to outreach in the colgate community in the next few years the concerns voiced came primarily from professors balakian and mcvaugh who ques tioned the choice of a sorority over a co-ed fraternity and who express ed concern over whether or not this choice promoted the separation of the sexes at colgate members responded that the decision was a conscious one intended to not ex clude a part of the male population but rather to draw a greater portion of the women at colgate into more active roles the sorority will remain small in this coming year in order to facilitate communications and en sure that the organization does not stray from its goals the member ship at present consists of fourteen fresh-men and twelve sophomores also during the meeting an an noucement was made by the chair jay plum noting the overall suc cess of may jam weekend despite initial difficulties a great portion of its success can be attributed to the generosity of president langdon whose financial aid made a great portion of may jam possible inman received the melon fellowship in the humanities by christine a knapp 87 michael inman a senior at col gate has received an andrew w mellon fellowship in the humanities the award will cover his tuition at stanford graduate school where he will be studying linguistics and provides him with a generous stipend approximately 100-125 mellon grants are awarded annually to col lege seniors or recent college graduates in canada and the united states the competition for the fellowships is regional and ad ministered by the woodro w wilson national fellowship foundation the awards are given to students who plan to pursue a phd and are interested in teaching at the undergraduate level a faculty sponsorâ€”in this case professor donald berryâ€”must recommend the student to the foundation attesting to his future promise as a teacher the program is hoping to attract more female and minority can didates the selection of winners is highly competitive and to be award ed one of the fellowships is a great honor board approves a pass/fail style plan to replace gro by caroline sherman 87 steroid racism charges are addressed discussed yesterday the faculty held its final meeting of the 1984-85 schoot year in addition to a wrap-up ol the most salient campus issues of this past spring a major area of discussion was that of the satisfac tory/unsatisfactory option which would replace the now defunct gro the faculty passed this new proposal introduced by the aab by a large majority those present passed the satisfactory/unsatisfactory pro posal 84-24 under this new policy juniors and seniors may take up to four classes which are evaluated satisfactory or unsatisfac tory in lieu of the regular letter grades students may only take one of these classes per term and it can not count toward one's concentra tion or general education re quirements in addition to these conditions the class lists distributed to the pro fessor will indicate which students in the class are taking it s/u a stu dent sdesire to takeaclass using the option will not be a criterion in determining thestudent's eligibility in the event of limited enrollment possibilities to obtain the grade of satisfac tory s the student must achieve a c or better anything below that including failure will be listed on the transcript with a u unsatisfac tory and will not be computed in the student's gradetoint average gpa if the student does achieve a grade of s it will be recorded on the transcript but will not be com puted into the student's gpa racism and steroids president langdon opened the meeting by addressing two major problems in the athletic depart ment prompted by recent allega tions of prejudice practiced in team sports made in a commentary in the news f incidents point to pre judice written by colgate students the president established an advisory group to investigate the situation in response to the ques tion of steroid use here at colgate president langdon emphasized the fact that at no time were any charges made that colgate coaches term ends but programs continue at colgate well into the summer by daniel hulsebosch 87 as spring semester winds down to exam period visions of an endless summer slip into the already saturated minds of the students possibly some also wonder what the colgate campus will be like during the summer mon ths and what it might be like come as it will fall semester most pro bably believe that the active com munity grinds to a standstill not true as a matter of fact the university is the environment of in tellectual endeavors year round but ever since colgate terminated its academic summer term three years ago this activity has been developing in other areas matthew leone coordinator of summer programs says the school functions in many educational capacities proper for a univer sity .'' one of these is through an ar ray of academic conferences that will take place here thereby helping colgate professors and other educators with research and teaching aids another program is a twenty year old ibm session in which executives receive sup plemental liberal arts study under the tutelage of john rexine still another is an elderhostel program whereby a group of senior citizens enroll in a few courses for a week colgate's facilities are also available for various other cor porate conferences organized by alumni and friends the rural en vironment is obviously conducive to relaxation and clear thought for those in the stressful business world the more relevant question however is whether students can expect any differences in the school when they return to campus first and foremost there are noplans as security announces motorized vehicles can't be stored all motorcycles mopeds motorscooters or any other motor driven vehicle with any size gasoline tank may not be stored or left in any university building colgate security has annouced the storage of any vehicle with a gasoline tank is against the new york state fire prevention code ffective january 1 1984 the code applies to all colgate residences whether or not they are owned by the university john basher a colgate security and fire safety officer said that all vehicles must be removed from university buildings before the end of the semester continued on page 7 continued on page 7

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the colgate maroon founded 1868 oldest college weekly in america vol cxvii no 23 colgate university hamilton ny tuesday may 7 19851 semester closes on divestment issue by dale bryk 87 final demonstration is scheduled for friday afternoon at chapel a final rally organized by col gate students calling for the divest ment in companies doing business in south africa is being scheduled for this friday at the rally par ticipants will release balloons sym bolizing the end of the two week longsit-inandtoshowtheunityand strength of the protestors move ment before colgate's finance committee meeting this meeting will be held at an as yet unannounc ed date also on friday jennifer davis exeuctive director of the american committee on africa is returning to speak to the colgate community following these events a large reception is planned for all those in volved in the movement a symposium is planned for wednesday afternoon at which both the majority and minority reports to the finance committee will be presented by the financial advisory committee the organization for colgate divest ment hopes to present its formal policy as well at this time an open discussion of all three proposals will follow representatives from thestudent and faculty groups supporting divestment will meet on thursday with those board members who are able to arrive a day early dean moynihan has indicated that as many as eighteen of the twenty four trustees will attend this meeting including the chairman of the board dartmouth divests of kimberly-clark but gate may keep shares dartmouth college will divest itself of two u.s companies doing business in south africa that have not conformed to the college's policy on investor responsibility according to dartmouth college president davidt mclaughlin the college will sell its holdings in the kimberly-clark corporation and the republic bank of dallas colgate presently own 1600 shares in the kimberly-clark cor poration according to raymond krehell vice president in charge of business and finance at colgate the present policies of the colgate corporate investment advisory committee state that the university will not divest instead if after direct cor respondence with the company the committee discovers that the sullivan principles are not being upheld it will call for a minority resolution at the annual stock holders mmeeting to persuade the corporation to cahange its opera tions and policies in south africa in responce to dartmouth's divest ment actions mr krehell said he was not familiar with the college's investment policy and therefor could not comment the kimberly-clark corpora tion owns a 39 percent interest in th carlton paper corporation a south african business which fail ed to demonstrate that it was in compliance with the sullivan prin ciples a set of personnnel guidelines for american companies doing business in south africa benefit concert for cancer fund set for wednesday by adrians gardela 86 a benefit concert will be held on wednesday may 8 at 8:00 p.m in the colgate chapel to raise money for the susan d lloyd scholarship fund susan lloyd was a 1980 high school graduate from westport connecticut who succumbed to cnacer just prior to her first semester at colgate the fund pro vides college scholarships in recognition of the achievements of young people battling cancer we lloyds are tough was the title of the essay susan wrote for ad mission to colgate she wrote of the many hills surrounding colgate and her confidence that she could climb them all after having a leg amputated because of the cancer she was able to go back to most of her former activities including cheerleading during her courageous fight with cancer susan showed no signs of self pity deter mined to lead a normal life jeff keith a past recipient of the scholarship lost a leg to cancer as a child and went on to become an avid skier lacrosse player and triathlete in february he completed an eight month 3,300 mile run across the united states i wanted to show that people like me are physically challenged not physically han dicapped said keith it is hoped that many will become involved with this worthy cause by supporting the may 8 concert hamilton town merchants and high school students have joined the ef fort by helping with donations ticket sales and posters the concert will first feature guitar and vocals by bob austrian jon schwartz and vocals by dave culton following that will be a performance by the colgate dance theater and guitar and vocals by suzanne sherman and tracy west much of the music to be played by the guitar duets will be by such songwriters as dan fogelberg and james taylor those who have heard these performers on campus are well aware of the high quality of entertainment this evening will of fer acting as emcee will be dean joseph caprio an international bake sale will follow the concert in judd chapel with donations coming from the in ternational organizations on cam pus tickets for the may bth concert are available for 3 from members of the scholarship fund commit tee and at the door on the night of the concert for more information contact suzanne sherman at 824-3334 langdon names winners of cobb fellowships by christine knapp 88 president langdon had a lun cheon at the colgate inn yesterday afternoon to honor this year's reci pients of the george cobb fellowship and the president's award the selection committee appointed by the student affairs board chose to honor twenty students with a cobb fellowship the award recognizes outstanding leadership qualities and the effec tive influence therein on the col gate community between ten and twenty students are annually acknowledged by this award established by a fund donated by the late george w cobb of the class of 1894 this year's recipients are from the class of 1986 victoria anderson tracy clark christine cuomo janine daniels betsy dinger louis goldberg anderew hill james plum steven siegel darryl silva and charles sprock from the class of 1987 colin bur rell john gershman jonathan halkyard tracy hucks mario marsicano domenick scudera and lynne woehrle from the classof 1988 heather fitzpatrick and susan phillips the president's award recognizing students who have made outstanding contributions to the minority community at colgate university was awarded to five seniors this award provides of ficial and public recognition of the dedicated service of selected seniors throughout their undergraduate years at colgate this year's reci pients are irving chung kirk mcdaniel jennifer randolph linda settles and gar field smith in addition to public recognition of their sevices at colgate winners of both awards receive a monetary award a jazz band played in the colgate quad friday afternoon to about two hundred students who enjoyed lots of free ice cream and pepsi cola photo matt gilson zeta delta pi sorority is approved here 4th colgate sorority by heather fitzpatrick 88 the student affairs board ap proved the one year probationary status for zeta delta pi a new sorority after this period the s.a.b will once again review the group and at that time if they are approved they will become an of ficial sorority on campus lisa salvatore zeta delta pi's president and vice president laurie martin briefly outlined the reasons for which they formed zeta delta pi and its goals for the future zeta delta pi has already begun to fulfill its goal of active ser vice to the hamilton and colgate communities in additional to work with the elderly at the hospital it has been in contact with the volunteer service bureau and has made a committment to outreach in the colgate community in the next few years the concerns voiced came primarily from professors balakian and mcvaugh who ques tioned the choice of a sorority over a co-ed fraternity and who express ed concern over whether or not this choice promoted the separation of the sexes at colgate members responded that the decision was a conscious one intended to not ex clude a part of the male population but rather to draw a greater portion of the women at colgate into more active roles the sorority will remain small in this coming year in order to facilitate communications and en sure that the organization does not stray from its goals the member ship at present consists of fourteen fresh-men and twelve sophomores also during the meeting an an noucement was made by the chair jay plum noting the overall suc cess of may jam weekend despite initial difficulties a great portion of its success can be attributed to the generosity of president langdon whose financial aid made a great portion of may jam possible inman received the melon fellowship in the humanities by christine a knapp 87 michael inman a senior at col gate has received an andrew w mellon fellowship in the humanities the award will cover his tuition at stanford graduate school where he will be studying linguistics and provides him with a generous stipend approximately 100-125 mellon grants are awarded annually to col lege seniors or recent college graduates in canada and the united states the competition for the fellowships is regional and ad ministered by the woodro w wilson national fellowship foundation the awards are given to students who plan to pursue a phd and are interested in teaching at the undergraduate level a faculty sponsorâ€”in this case professor donald berryâ€”must recommend the student to the foundation attesting to his future promise as a teacher the program is hoping to attract more female and minority can didates the selection of winners is highly competitive and to be award ed one of the fellowships is a great honor board approves a pass/fail style plan to replace gro by caroline sherman 87 steroid racism charges are addressed discussed yesterday the faculty held its final meeting of the 1984-85 schoot year in addition to a wrap-up ol the most salient campus issues of this past spring a major area of discussion was that of the satisfac tory/unsatisfactory option which would replace the now defunct gro the faculty passed this new proposal introduced by the aab by a large majority those present passed the satisfactory/unsatisfactory pro posal 84-24 under this new policy juniors and seniors may take up to four classes which are evaluated satisfactory or unsatisfac tory in lieu of the regular letter grades students may only take one of these classes per term and it can not count toward one's concentra tion or general education re quirements in addition to these conditions the class lists distributed to the pro fessor will indicate which students in the class are taking it s/u a stu dent sdesire to takeaclass using the option will not be a criterion in determining thestudent's eligibility in the event of limited enrollment possibilities to obtain the grade of satisfac tory s the student must achieve a c or better anything below that including failure will be listed on the transcript with a u unsatisfac tory and will not be computed in the student's gradetoint average gpa if the student does achieve a grade of s it will be recorded on the transcript but will not be com puted into the student's gpa racism and steroids president langdon opened the meeting by addressing two major problems in the athletic depart ment prompted by recent allega tions of prejudice practiced in team sports made in a commentary in the news f incidents point to pre judice written by colgate students the president established an advisory group to investigate the situation in response to the ques tion of steroid use here at colgate president langdon emphasized the fact that at no time were any charges made that colgate coaches term ends but programs continue at colgate well into the summer by daniel hulsebosch 87 as spring semester winds down to exam period visions of an endless summer slip into the already saturated minds of the students possibly some also wonder what the colgate campus will be like during the summer mon ths and what it might be like come as it will fall semester most pro bably believe that the active com munity grinds to a standstill not true as a matter of fact the university is the environment of in tellectual endeavors year round but ever since colgate terminated its academic summer term three years ago this activity has been developing in other areas matthew leone coordinator of summer programs says the school functions in many educational capacities proper for a univer sity .'' one of these is through an ar ray of academic conferences that will take place here thereby helping colgate professors and other educators with research and teaching aids another program is a twenty year old ibm session in which executives receive sup plemental liberal arts study under the tutelage of john rexine still another is an elderhostel program whereby a group of senior citizens enroll in a few courses for a week colgate's facilities are also available for various other cor porate conferences organized by alumni and friends the rural en vironment is obviously conducive to relaxation and clear thought for those in the stressful business world the more relevant question however is whether students can expect any differences in the school when they return to campus first and foremost there are noplans as security announces motorized vehicles can't be stored all motorcycles mopeds motorscooters or any other motor driven vehicle with any size gasoline tank may not be stored or left in any university building colgate security has annouced the storage of any vehicle with a gasoline tank is against the new york state fire prevention code ffective january 1 1984 the code applies to all colgate residences whether or not they are owned by the university john basher a colgate security and fire safety officer said that all vehicles must be removed from university buildings before the end of the semester continued on page 7 continued on page 7